Deseret Evening News | 1902-02-17 | Page 1 | Resulst of an Earthquake

OF AN EARTHQUAKE I Two Thousand Persons Mostly Women and Children Per Perished Perished at Four Thousand Houses Destroyed Thirtyfour Villages in itt Vicinity Also Suffered liakim fu Feb lD hl h are n slowly arriving it t from show how that hint 2000 1000 persons persona mostly women and children l aa an 8 It is of th the lat last week and t lal four tour thousand houses house Iou were destroyed Thirtyfour I 1 r villages m of ot the country surrounding alto also suffered To add to the terrors terror of ot the he neighbor neighborhood hotel hood a e volcano near the lie village ot of Iaras eastward nf of ban broken out Into Inlo active eruption A t great crevasse has appeared l 0 Immense Immen flames amid strains of laru 11 being thrown out The Till course et f 1 river has ban h n consequence of its It boil bed being t l with earth which had hail been boon 1 I Iby by b the earthquake Battalion of at guards and detachments h of ot soldiers with tents tent have been dis dispatched d patched to In the work wk of rescue The lied rom socIety lety Is active I levitating y